Igor Stasenko wrote:
2009/11/17 Juan Vuletich juan@jvuletich.org:
It is all pretty simple to me. I want to see what's in there. I want to control what I do with it. And I don't want "automatic changes". That's all.
Then you are using wrong tool. Use hex editor instead.
I think there might be a bit of a misunderstanding here. To some extent I share Juan's view - I like to be in control about line ends, in fact occasionally it's critical that I can determine the line end convention.
However, I have *never* had the need to edit "mixed" line end conventions, i.e., CR, LF, or CRLF side-by-side in the same file. And that's why I don't feel the need to see the individual CRs or LFs in the editor. A setting *on* the editor that tells me "the line ends in this file are CR/LF/CRLF" serves the same purpose and with a lot less clutter. I can usually just ignore it, and when I have to I can check (or change) it.
So from my perspective displaying CR, LF, or CRLF all the same is just fine. What's missing (for the purposes where I use Notepad++ or Emacs for) is an editor that allows me to see and change the line end convention on the file I'm editing. If we'd have an explicit File Editor (instead of just a whacky workspace with a file attached to it) it would serve my (and probably most other line end conscious users) purposes just fine.
Cheers, - Andreas